Proverbial Wisdom

Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.

505. What female heart can gold despise?
What cat’s averse to fish?

Thomas Gray (1716-1771)

Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat

506. Dearer is love than life, and fame than gold;
But dearer than them both your faith once plighted hold.

Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

Faerie Queene, Bk V, Can. XI, St. 63

507. There is one road
To peace, and that is truth, which follow ye;
Love sometimes leads astray to misery.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

Julian and Maddalo

508. The fox barks not, when he would steal the lamb.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Henry VI, Pt II (Suffolk), Act III, Scene I

509. Hot love soon colde.

John Heywood (?1497-?1580)

Proverbs, Bk I, Ch. II

510. One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Sir Edwin Arnold (1832-1904)

Adzuma, or The Japanese Wife (Sakamune),
Act II, Scene V